Thierry Van Biesen
Paris, France
Of Lebanese and Belgian origin, Thierry Van Biesen was born in Beirut in 1965. He was 10 years old, the Lebanese civil war broke out and changed his life dramatically. In order to survive the horrors all around him, he suppressed the violence and developed a way of seeing that was unusually optimistic and uplifting. Little did he know that this selective filter would consciously be applied to his work years later.
In 1989, Thierry moved to New York to assist prestigious photographers Ralph Gibson, Sarah Moon, Duane Michals, Art Kane and Arthur Elgort. They gave him insight into their mastery and inspired him to think about his own visual style.
In 1997, he moved to London and started cultivating his personal style and experimenting with a visual language infused with his signature buoyancy.
Thierry’s vision was instantly recognized, and he soon collaborated with major fashion magazines such as TANK, MINED, ELLE Japan, MADAME FIGARO, JALOUSE, DEALER DELUXE, MARIE- CLAIRE, ZINK! And OMEN. The recognition that his fashion photography brought him attracted worldwide advertising clients including SONY, AMAZON.COM, FIAT cars, SOCIETE GENERALE, GUINNESS, CASTELBAJAC PERFUME, ISSEY MIYAKE, KATE SPADE, MACY’s, OLD NAVY, NEIMAN MARCUS, SHINSEGAE
and CLUB MEDITERRANEE.
In 2000, his work was exhibited alongside Guy Bourdin, Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Klein, Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh and 50 others as part of the group exhibition “Archeology Of Elegance” at The Hamburg Museum Of Modern Art.
Convinced that those who change the world for the better are the dreamers, not the cynics, Thierry continues to create imagery that vibrates with joy, movement and poetry.
2013 - Fashion Photographer of the Year - ASMP, 1999 - Photographer of the year - CCB
- Advertising
- Corporate
- Editorial
- Entertainment
- Fashion
- Portrait
- Italian
- Arabic
- English
- French